Thesaurus: bristle

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1. n. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
2. n. A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
3. v. t. To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
4. v. t. To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
5. v. i. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
6. v. i. To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
7. v. i. To show defiance or indignation.
8. n. a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
9. n. a stiff hair
10. v. be in a state of movement or action
11. v. rise up as in fear
12. v. have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles